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Well, to end the year with referrals (it is always nice to refer to others), inspired by another blogger's online research, you're getting a link-full of articles and information some about changes in provisions to mental health care  in only the past two weeks, but mostly a dozen or so blogger thoughts, old and new. We probably need to keep up with the new ones, refresh the old. There are links to social work and psychology sites, nonprofit and private practice sites. So if you have some time, maybe while thinking up those New Year resolutions, cruise my new best friend Dorlee's suggestions. They might make good reading. Or make you angry. That depends, as always, upon your politics, for some of these bloggers have strong opinions. One, for example, takes issues with the new DSM, a fairly long read, caveat emptor. Happy New Year, drive safe or preferably not at all, and as you obviously already know, it really isn't cool anymore to drink excessively on New Years Eve. t

Were it not for my practice, and now, the last section of the remarkable DSM-5, I wouldn't be blogging about this. It feels like such a scrooge-thing to do. A kid finds this awesome present, an X box 360 under the tree, and his mom reads ENT and warns. . . Enjoy. But remember. It is a starter drug. Like our first flip phone was a starter drug, too, right? We can laugh, but couples do present in therapy, meaning they are in therapy because they disagree (fight) about one of them having a compulsion to play games online with friends. He isn't finishing his second shift responsibilities, and worse, isn't coming to bed at night. Every night is Christmas, up late waiting for an online Santa to lose. Competition rocks, really raises those endorphins. At the end of the DSM-5, page 795, we find a new disorder proposed for further study . Internet Gaming Disorder. No code yet. Interestingly, Persistent Complex Bereavement Disorder is among these disorders under consideration.

First, I apologize for blogging so rarely the past six months. We say that writing can be therapeutic, but you do need a certain amount of neuro-transmitters, endorphins, serotonin, zipping around upstairs to put out.  But that's going to change. After all, I've studied the new DSM 5 DSM 5 and there's much to say about diagnosis.  Yeah, it was expensive. But mainly because time heals.  I'm beginning to notice things again, like in the old days, when something, any random thing, would happen and I would tell FD: I must blog about this. That's happening again. The job, when a parent passes away, as any therapist will tell you, is to grieve, but also, to get out there, be in the world .When you're running on empty, that can be hard. So for some of us the best therapy is to sit around and read, preferably in some yoga posture, learn new things. Or listen to the radio, watch TV. Listening to NPR last week I heard two journalists talking about books that might make n

Well, it isn't over until it's over, but as the first snowfall blankets Chicago, most of us are settling in for the holidays, glad to see 2013 go. First snow, not so great A patient asked me only yesterday when it occurred to her: "Wait! If Chanucha is over early this year, then what do you guys do during the Xmas season. And what will you do on Xmas?" She did look worried. Poker on Xmas On the day of, many of us eat Chinese food, play poker, or go to the movies, which sounds good to me. And while others are making cookies, decorating the tree, and wrapping gifts in preparation, I'll probably do what I'm doing now, wrapping up therapy with sad people. Really, confused people. The holidays are tough on everyone. Indeed, it was a crazy pre-Thanksgiving. The games began in October, well before Halloween. People worried about Thanksgiving in November. The family reunion head games. Every year during this season to be happy and jolly, peaceful and thankful, at the